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Friday, March 31, 2017

I say "kinda" because they only posted one page, but I'm pretty sure ComicBook.com does this a bit, posting stuff early or incomplete... I'd check back like early next week for maybe the full preview? I mean, what's Newsarama gonna swipe without it?

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Full disclosure... This will be the first day in a post-Persona 5 release world, so my write ups may very well be "stuff happened, bye."

Batman #20: Finale of I Am Bane, I bet they punch each other a bit.

Nightwing #18: Pyg leads to Hurt... I'm surprisingly game for this.

Metal is being announced on Sunday at the Dallas FanExpo, watch for that stream. Tom King is also apparently going to talk more about his next arc The War of Jokes and Riddles, which I'm going to guess sounds like a Zero Year flashback.

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Okay, so we're changing things up here. Stack Rundown: Dead. I don't want to write something about every single issue I read in a week. I don't got time for that anymore, and more often than not, I don't have much unique to say about a particular issue that differentiates it from the previous in the series, and it just ends up making me rush through comics so I have everything read by Sunday morning.

So instead, I'm going to replace Rundown with Highlights, which will see me only highlight the issues of the week I actually feel like I have something to say, or they caught my attention for a particular reason. This won't be weekly, because I can't guarantee every week will feature an issue or two that catches my attention in a particular way. So it's more of a "whenever the hell I feel like it" sort of schedule, which suits me pretty well at this point.

Here I was thinking I was going to open this by referencing the Perturbator album in some form, only to remember that's called "Dangerous Days," so there goes that pull.

Anyways.

Metal this is not, but it seems we've got a prelude to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's now-not-so-summer event, which I've been suppressing my excitement for going on 7 months now? Yeah. Didn't know this was coming, but nevertheless, Scott Snyder, James Tynion, Jim Lee, Andy Kubert and John Romita JR have "The Forge" and "The Cast" one shots coming in June and July that set the stage for events to come... boy you sure do forge and cast metal, don't you?

You can read more about it at DC's site, hell, you've probably already read enough about it while I was at work, but nevertheless, this all sounds cool... and if what half the shit I've heard about the probably-still-called Metal remains true (given the time that's past), this could be one awesome event, unlike those we've seen before.

On top of that, James Tynion has confirmed that this is what the final scene of Detective Comics #950 was about, and on top of that, Tim Seeley of Nightwing and Steve Orlando of Justice League of America have chimed in too.

Hey look, I made it. Had a snow day, go figure. Like I said on Twitter, this series of posts is on hiatus. I've got a long term project at work that requires some weekends, so that obviously takes priority. Can't say I can see myself doing this post regularly that much anymore.

Origin issue! Sort of... and god damn it, again... teasing me with only one issue of Kenneth Rocafort... and Guillem March on variant covers to boot! Maaaaaaan... I need more DC books from both those guys.

Aside from one patchwork art issue, Detective Comics has been one of the best visually represented books in Rebirth. Even when you get art that's not from the promoted team of either Eddy Barrows or Alvaro Martinez, it looks fucking great. Blanco and Duce are pumping out some great looking stuff here.